BETO DE VOLDER

CONTENTS

5 Short Biography

6 Paintings

18 Calados: Wall Reliefs

28 Drawings

44 Beto De Volder In The Studio Brooklyn NY, 2020

48 CV

Beto De Volder Untitled 2020 Acrylic on hardboard 11 x 14 in (27.9 x 35.6 cm)

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Beto De Volder’s (b. 1962, Buenos Aires, Argentina) long-standing artistic career and oeuvre stands out as a unique inheritor of Argentine modern- ism and expression. De Volder studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes Manuel Belgrano in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 1986-1989. In the 1990s, De Volder initiated his long-standing artistic career through a seri- ous involvement and participation in Argentine artistic circles. In 1993, De Volder was awarded first prize in painting at the III Bienal de Arte Joven (Third Biennial of Young Artists) in Buenos Aires. Soon thereafter, he was awarded a scholarship by Fundación Antorchas (Buenos Aires) which en- abled him to work in the prestigious Taller de Barracas under the mentor- ship of Luis Fernando Benedit, Pablo Suárez, and Ricardo Longhini (1994 -1996). Until the mid 1990s, De Volder’s practice was both figurative and geometric, reminiscent of cartoon-style street art and replete with sexual motifs, humor and satire.

After taking a break from the art world to pursue a career in business, Beto De Volder reentered the Argentine art scene in 2000. Since then, his artistic practice has been characterized by a persistent desire to in- vestigate drawing, color, and the possibilities of the line. Swirling, loop- ing, and undulating, the lines he creates combine artistic precision and slowness with the visual suggestion of movement and speed, and point towards legacies of abstraction in the Rio de la Plata region. His more re- cent work incorporates these themes, but tends to a smaller format, pro- ducing a larger sense of intimacy with the work for both artist and viewer.

De Volder has exhibited internationally, featuring in solo and group ex- hibitions in the Americas and Europe. Select group exhibitions in recent years include: The Flag Art Foundation (New York, 2019); Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires (MACBA) (Buenos Aires, 2019); Centro Cultural Borges (Buenos Aires, 2018); Centre Régional d'Art Contem- porain (Montbéliard, France, 2012); Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA) (Buenos Aires, 2011); and The Blanton Museum of Art (Austin, 2011). De Volder’s work can be found in a number of inter- Beto De Volder Photographed by Luciano Jaureguy nationally reputed private and public collections, including those of the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA); Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires (MACBA); and Museo Castagnino de Rosario (Santa Fe, Argentina). De Volder has been based in New York City since 2018.

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De Volder’s incursions into the nature of drawing, and into the possibilities of dark and light led him to explore color and painting in a new mode: in small-format, color-blocking, untitled paisajes (landscapes). In these paintings, De Volder aims to remove the line altogether and to purely paint, prioritizing the medium’s materiality and the color relationships in the composition.

Beto De Volder Untitled 2020 Acrylic on hardboard 10 x 10 in (25.4 x 25.4 cm)

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Since the early 2000s, Beto De Volder’s oeuvre has necessarily been concerned with drawing, color, and the possibilities of the line. The swirling lines he creates, always constantly in movement, naturally originate from age-old traditions of drawing. However, their inspiration also comes from an unlikely source: vintage cartoons of the Tasmanian Devil. Seeing this character on television with his son, De Volder was taken by the animated, graphic swirling that denoted his chaotic and rapid movement.

Taking from the Tasmanian Devil, but also from the visual language of comic books, De Volder’s lines suggest unhindered movement. Their potential for speed, however, is juxtaposed with the fact that they’re unmoving, as well as with the slow, dedicated precision needed to create them. The references to cartoons and comic books additionally gesture towards the ludic in De Volder’s work. He refers to his drawings as firuletes— haphazard doodles in spiral shapes— showcasing the playful attitude he permits in creating and describing his work.

Though originally presented as works on paper, in recent years the artist has explored these ideas in larger format and especially in his dibujos calados: sculptural, colorful works emphasizing positive and negative, which embody drawing in real space and look humorously to ideas of spontaneity and expression. Untitled (2021) functions as a key example. On a large scale, De Volder has created a set of multiple lines that precisely and meticulously cross over each other in a seemingly uncontrolled fashion. Making them stand out in red, De Volder makes reference to the legacies of color and geometry in Rioplatense modernism. Beto De Volder Untitled 2009 Acrylic on MDF 76 3/4 x 68 1/2 in (194.9 x 174 cm)

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In 2018, Beto De Volder relocated from Buenos Aires to New York, causing a shift in his practice and in his mode of working. In large part, this was due to the lesser amount of space in his new studio, which necessitated that he return to a smaller format. De Volder began to draw alone with a lead pencil, mapping out hundreds undulating, straight, and interlocking lines on white backgrounds and in increasingly complex compositions. These works beseech the viewer to look closely, inviting them into a more intimate view of De Volder’s meticulous and meditative practice.

Beto De Volder Untitled 2020 Graphite on clayboard 16 x 20 in (48.6 x 50.8 cm)

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44 HUTCHINSON MODERN & CONTEMPORARY 47 EAST 64TH STREET, NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10065 45 CV 2016 Untitled, Sobrino-De Volder, Galería del Infinito, Buenos Aires, Argentina All Boys II, Museo de Arte Rawson, San Juan, Argentina 2015 Installation at La Estampería, Buenos Aires, Argentina BETO DE VOLDER 2014 Raiteri- De Volder, Mok Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2012 Au-delà du TABLEAU, LE 19, Centre Régional d'Art Contemporain, Born 1962, Buenos Aires, Argentina Montbéliard, France Lives and works in New York Geométricos hoy, Caminos en expansión, Museo Emilio Caraffa, Córdoba, Argentina EDUCATION Siquier, Dorr, De Volder II, Galería Del Paseo, Punta del Este, Uruguay Manuel Belgrano National School of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1989 2011 Arte argentino actual en la Colección de Malba. Obras 1989 -2010, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Recovering Beauty: The 1990s in Buenos Aires, The Blanton Museum of Art, 2017 Untitled, Galería Del Paseo, Punta del Este, Uruguay The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 2014 Untitled, Galería Del Paseo, Lima, Peru PLC, Punto, Línea, Curva, Contemporáneo, Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos 2013 Untitled, Galería Del Paseo, Punta del Este, Uruguay Aires; Galería Vasari, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2012 Untitled, Durban-Segnini Gallery, Miami, Florida 2010 De piso a techo - Una antología del dibujo contemporáneo, Chez Vautier Kabinett, Buenos Aires, Argentina Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2009 Más, Galería Palatina, Buenos Aires, Argentina Pentagrama, Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2007 Untitled, Galería Palatina, Buenos Aires, Argentina Azules, líneas rojas, Centro Cultural de España, Córdoba, Argentina 2006 Recent Works, Durban-Segnini Gallery, Miami, Florida Siquier, Dorr, De Volder, Galería Del Paseo, Punta del Este, Uruguay 2005 Poco color, ZavaletaLab, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2009 El color en toda su diversidad, Ciclo Contemporáneo, Centro Cultural 2004 Sanacabeza, Galería Alberto Sendrós, Buenos Aires, Argentina Borges, Buenos Aires, Argentina Escuelismo. Arte argentino de los 90, Museo 2003 Azules, rojos y amarillos, Sonoridad Amarilla, Buenos Aires, Argentina de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina Firulete, II Bienal de Dibujo Contemporáneo de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, All Boys x 6 en el Rosa, Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes Rosa Galisteo de La casona de los Olivera, Buenos Aires, Argentina Rodríguez, Santa Fé, Argentina 2002 Es lo que ves, Espacio Vox, Bahía Blanca, Argentina 2008 XII Premio Fundación Federico Klemm a las Artes Visuales, Buenos Aires, Firulete, Arguibel Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina Argentina 2001 Tan próximo y tan lejano, Brodersohn Martínez de Arte Contemporáneo, Las entrañas del arte, un relato material Siglo XVII- siglo XXI, Fundación Buenos Aires, Argentina OSDE, Buenos Aires, Argentina Correspondences. Contemporary Art from 2000 Antología, Blanca de Arte Contemporáneo Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Walton Fine Arts Wheaton 1995 Agua, Mun Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina College, Massachusetts 1993 Romántico, Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2007 Salón Nacional de Dibujo, Palais de Glace, Buenos Aires, Argentina Reliquias, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina Papeles Latinoamericanos, de Siqueiros a Kuitca, Museo de Arte 1991 Pinturas, Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas, Buenos Aires, Argentina Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina Geometrías, Zavaleta Lab Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Orthodoxes-hétérodoxes: choisir sa ligne, Le 10neuf, Centre Régional d'Art 2019 Drawn Together Again, Flag Art Foundation, New York, New York Contemporain, Montbéliard, France Vértigo, geometría e inestabilidad, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de 2006 Premio de Artes Visuales Fundación OSDE, Fundación OSDE, Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires (MACBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina Argentina 2018 Microwave, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York, New York Dibujo próximo, Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas, Buenos Aires, Argentina Large Format. Painting & Abstraction, Durban-Segnini Gallery, Miami, Florida 2005 Premio de Artes Visuales Fundación OSDE, Fundación OSDE, Buenos Aires, Secretos compartidos, Una antología del Arte Contemporáneo, Centro Argentina Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires, Argentina Implícito- explícito, El Borde Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2004 Colección Macro de Arte Contemporáneo, Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes Juan B. Castagnino, Rosario, Argentina

46 HUTCHINSON MODERN & CONTEMPORARY 47 EAST 64TH STREET, NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10065 47 B/N, Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires, Argentina Batkis, Laura, “Beto de Volder,” Lápiz (Madrid), July 2004. Diálogos, Colección Cisneros, Museo de Arte de Lima, Peru Batkis, Laur,. “Imágenes reveladoras,” Revista Noticias (Buenos Aires), 2005. Diálogos, Colección Cisneros, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes Santiago de Chile, 2004 MacDonnell, Mercedes, “Beto de Volder. Sanacabezas,” Los inrockuptibles Santiago, Chile (Buenos Aires), 2004. 2003 Tres volúmenes, Espacio Volumen 3, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2000 García Navarro, Santiago, “Una república a medida,” La Nación (Buenos 2002 Fronteras Borradas, Contemporánea Art Fair, Miami, Florida Aires), June 23, 2000. 2001 Los noventa en los noventa, Provincial Fine Arts Museum Timoteo Navarro, San Miguel de Tucumán, Tucumán, Argentina SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 2000 Solidaridad 2000, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina 1999 Colección Bruzzone, Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2016 Mattos, Dennys. Speaking of Abstraction: Language Transitions in Latin 1997 Premio República de Austria, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, American Art. Miami: Durban Segnini Gallery, 2016. Argentina 2012 Passolini, Alberto, Isabel Plante, and Santiago García Navarro. De Volder. 1995 El taller de Barracas, Clásica y Moderna, Buenos Aires, Argentina Buenos Aires: Editorial Adriana Hidalgo, 2012. Artistas de la galería, Mun Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2011 David-Villa, Úrsula. “Beto de Volder,” in Recovering Beauty. The 1990s 1994 El Taller de Barracas, Ruth Benzacar Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina in Buenos Aires. Austin: The Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas Uno sobre otro, Mun Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina at Austin, 2011. Premio Braque, Banco Patricios Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2009 Mezza, Cintia. “Más,” Galería Palatina (Buenos Aires), 2009. 1993 III Bienal de Arte Joven, predio Ferial de Palermo, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2007 García, Marita. “Entre el proyecto y la contingencia: De Volder y sus líneas,” Salón del Nuevo Mundo, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina Galería Palatina (Buenos Aires), 2007. 1992 Salón Manuel Belgrano, Museo Sivori, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2006 Medina, Álvaro. “The Universe and Beto De Volder´s Painting,” in Beto De De puerto a puerto, Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes, Bahía Blanca, Argentina Volder Recent Works. Miami: Durban Segnini Gallery, 2006. 1991 Premio Gunter, CAYC, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2005 Pacheco, Marcelo. “De Volder. Entrelíneas,” in Beto De Volder Poco Color. Premio Braque, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (MAMBA), Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires: Galería ZavaletaLab, 2005. Argentina Gradowczyk, Mario. Arte abstracto. Cruzando líneas desde el Sur. Buenos Aires: Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, 2005. PRIZES 2004 Jiménez, Ariel. “Dibujar/desdibujar” in Diálogos. Arte Latinoamericano desde la Colección Cisneros. Santiago de Chile. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, 2007 Honorable Mention, Salón Nacional de dibujo, Palais de Glace, Buenos Aires, 2004. Argentina Noorthoorn, Victoria. “Beto de Volder,” in Sanacabezas. Buenos Aires: 1995 Scholarship Fundación Antorchas, Buenos Aires, Argentina Galería Alberto Sendrós, 2004. 1993 Primer Premio en Pintura, III Bienal de Arte Joven, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2003 Pérez Oramas, Luis. “Beto de Volder. Azul nostalgia del ruido,” en Azules, rojos y amarillos. Buenos Aires: Sonoridad Amarilla, 2003. SELECTED PRESS Del Carril, María. Sin título (rojo), in Azules, rojos y amarillos. Buenos Aires: Sonoridad Amarilla, 2003. 2018 “Gran formato como amplificador de la expresión abstracta,” El Nuevo Herald García, Marita. Sin título (amarillo), in Azules, rojos y amarillos. Buenos Aires: (Miami), December 20, 2018. Sonoridad Amarilla, 2003. 2007 Martínez Quijano, Ana, “De Volder. La consigna, huir de cualquier cliché,” Ámbito 2002 Rizzo, Patricia. “Sin título,” in Firulete. Buenos Aires: Arguibelart, 2002. Financiero (Buenos Aires), November 5, 2007. 2000 Bruzzone, Gustavo. “La vuelta de De Volder,” in Antología. Buenos Aires: Verlichak, Victoria, “Las líneas bailan,” Revista D&D (Buenos Aires), 2007. Galería Blanca de Arte Contemporáneo, 2000. 2006 Casanegra, Mercedes, “Beto de Volder. Bajo vigilancia,” Arte al Día Internacional Fontes, Claudia. “En los suburbios,” in Antología. Buenos Aires: Galería (Buenos Aires), October 2006, 60-65. Blanca de Arte Contemporáneo, 2000. 2005 Tortosa, Alina, “Beto de Volder,” Arte al Día (Buenos Aires), 2005. Brizuela, Fernando, “La línea interminable,” Ámbito Financiero (Buenos Aires), SELECTED COLLECTIONS September 26, 2005. Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA) Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires (MACBA) Cisneros Collection

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Special thanks to Beto De Volder, Martina Lentino, and Andrea Zambrano for their collaboration and assistance in realizing this project

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